Handle attachment.



N0. 831,507. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

I J. W. GIBBS.

HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

APPLYIOATION FILED SEPT.5.1906.

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5 Round JOHN W. GIBBS, OF MALVERN, ARKANSAS.

HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed September 5, 1905. Serial No. 277,107.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. Games, a citizen of the United States, residing at Malvern, in the county of Hot Spring and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Handle Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to new and useful improvements in handle attachments, and while it is primarily intended to be used as a broom-handle attachment it may be used in connection with dusters, mops, window-brushers, and any other device where applicable.

The object of my invention is the production of a device of this class that may be attached to the handle of a broom or other cleaning device, lengthen the same, and thereby enable the user to get at places which would be inconvenient without its use.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts as set forth in the specification and claims hereunto attached.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are designated by like characters throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a broom, with my invention in elevation attached to the handle thereof, part of the extension-rod of said attachment and a section of the broom-handle broken away. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the plates, jaws, and Wings, with the extension-rod in elevation secured thereto and partly broken away, looking at the concave sides of said jaw, plate, and wings. Fig 3 is a vertical sectional view of my plates, wings, jaws, and cap secured to the extension rod, said rod being in elevation and partly broken away. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of my cap. Fig. 5 is a modification of a part of my invention, showing another method of clamping the handle to the attachment.

My invention is described as follows:

The numeral 1 represents a broom provided with the usual handle 2, a section of said handle being broken away.

The numeral 3 represents my improved attachment, partly consisting of two curved plates 4. Said plates are smaller at their lower ends than at their tops, and terminate at their lower ends in jaws 5, extending below the end of the rod and externally tapered and threaded to receive a threaded clamping-ring 11. secured at their upper ends to an extensionrod 7 by means of bolts or rivets 8. As said plates are curved it will be apparent that they will conform to the curvature of said extension-rod. Said plates are provided with horizontal slits in each side just below the extremity of the rod 7, thus forming triangular wings 9, that are bent inward toward the center of the device. The upper ends of the wings 9 rest against the lower end of the rod 7, and the tapered lower ends of the wings form abutments for the upper end of any handle to which the device may be applied. By reason of the taper of these wings and of the jaws handles of different sizes may be clamped in the attachment and will be firmly held in place not only at the lower ends of the jaws, but at the end of the handle. The numeral 11 represents a cap provided with internal threads, which cap screws on said threaded jaws 5.

The operation of my device is as follows: When I desire to attach my invention to the handle of a broom or other cleaning article, I pass the handle thereof down between the two curved plates 4. Should the handle be sufficiently small in diameter, the upper end thereof will come in contact with and rest against the lower end of rod 7. Said cap 11 is then screwed on said jaws 5 until the handle is securely clamped between said jaws. Should the handle of the broom be of greater diameter, it will accommodate itself to the four edges of said wings 9. Although my invention is preferably attached to the handle of a broom or other cleaning device by providing said plates with threaded 'aws and using a threaded cap, I do not con ne myself to this Said plates are rigidly I specific method, but claim the right to make 5 said plates straight and substitute for the cap a band 12 and thumb-screw 13.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters tion of a rod, two curved plates fitted and atshown and described, and for the purposes 10 ta ched to opposite sides of the rod, and eX- set forth. tending beyond the end of the rod to'form In testimony whereof I affix my signature sprlng-jaws, said plates being tapered and in presence of two subscribing witnesses. threaded at their free ends, and provided with interior abutments below the end of the JOHN GIBBS rod, said abutments being downwardly Witnesses: tapered, and a threaded ring fitting the J. E. YOUNG,

threaded ends of'the jaws, substantially as W. J. THRASHER. 

